Decades have been spent trying to get boys to read – but trying
to get teenage boys to read? Forget it. Proposing the question ‘What are
teenage boys interested in?’ will typically be answered with nothing more than
a roll of the eyes, but Daniel Handler’s newest novel All the Dirty Parts focuses on exactly that. Described by the
author in a recent New York Times article,
the novel “portrays a young boy’s emotional, hetroflexible sex life”. Instead
of censoring out the sex, drugs, and rock and roll, Handler writes head on
about a young adult’s burgeoning sexuality and tells it like it is. As Handler
puts it: “Let’s not smirk at their interests. Let’s give them books that might
engage them."
Handler is also known by his pen name, Lemony Snicket.
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